User:Trashbag/Helicopters

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The Helicopter has unique characteristics which have led to it being featured in films, video games, and other media.

Models

Agusta A109

The Agusta A109 has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

AH-1 Cobra

After the US Army sold AH-1 Cobra parts in the surplus market, at least one private interest was able to assemble a flyable AH-1F which was then made available for filming. This explains the Cobra's numerous appearances in both television episodes and movies. (The Army later destroyed key surplus parts to prevent unauthorized assembly of an AH-1.)

Films:

Television:

Games:

AH-64 Apache

The AH-64 Apache has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

  • Top Gear – A British Army Apache WAH-64 tracked presenter Jeremy Clarkson (in a Lotus Exige). Clarkson could avoid being locked on, so long as the Apache was restricted to the area above the racetrack; the Apache achieved lock within seconds once it was allowed to go further away.
  • Future Weapons - A US Army Longbow Apache was featured in one episode, demonstrating its' combat capabilities in both day and night conditions.

Games:

The Apache is one of three helicopters playable in the game Blackhawk Striker 2.

Bell 47

The Bell 47G is well known as the helicopter used in both the M*A*S*H film, and the M*A*S*H television series. Other appearances include:

Movies:

Television:

Bell 206

The Bell 206 has appeared in:

Bell 212

The Bell 212 or the more recent Bell 412 has appeared in:

Films:

Bell 222

The Bell 222 is famous for its appearance as Airwolf in the television series also named Airwolf. A Bell 222 also appeared as an enemy chopper named “Redwolf”

UH-60 Black Hawk

The UH-60 Black Hawk has appeared in:

CH-46 Sea Knight / BV/KV 107-II

The CH-46 Sea Knight has appeared in:

Films:


Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)

Command and Conquer Renegade as GDI and Nod's transport copter.

Boeing CH-47 Chinook / Model 234

The CH-47 Chinook has appeared in:

Films:


Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)
  • Armored Fist 3 (non-playable)
  • Operation Flashpoint series - Added in the Red Hammer Expansion
  • The Ace Combat series (non-playable)
  • Command & Conquer: Generals series - As the USA supply gatherer.
  • Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and Command and Conquer Red Alert under the name of transport helicopter.

Books:

  • DK Big Book of Airplanes by Anne Millard (ISBN 0789465213)

CH-53

The CH-53 and its variants have appeared in:

Films:

Games:

MH-53 Pave Low

Films:

Books:

Games

CH-54 Tarhe

The CH-54 Tarhe has appeared in:

Films:

Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw

The Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

  • A CH-34, painted pink with a toothy smile and named the Screaming Mimi–featured in the television series Riptide.
  • An episode of Miami Vice where gangsters hold hostages trying to escape to the Bahamas.

Eurocopter Colibri

The Eurocopter Colibri has appeared in:

Films:

RAH-66 Comanche

The RAH-66 Comanche has appeared in:

Films:

  • Hulk – pursuing the title character through a canyon

Television:

Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc – Not playable
    • Enemy Engaged: Comanche/Hokum – Featured
  • Gunship 2000 - Two versions of the Comanche are playable in this game. One with external pylons labeled as the Comanche Gunship and one without pylons called a Comanche Scout.
  • Jungle Strike
  • Command & Conquer: Generals – Controllable when playing USA. Fighting them when playing GLA. If a Commanche is shot down, one pilot bails out in a parachute.
  • The Comanche Series by NovaLogic - 5 games in the series, controllable in single and multi-player modes.
  • The Rah66 Comanche appears in Command and Conquer Renegade as Sakura's personal helicopter.

The Comanche is one of three playable helicopters in Wildtangent's game Blackhawk Striker 2.

Eurocopter AS 365

The Eurocopter Dauphin has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

Games

Hiller H-23

The Hiller H-23 has appeared in:

Films:


Eurocopter Fennec AS-550

The Eurocopter Fennec has appeared in:

Films:

Eurocopter AS350

The Eurocopter AS350 has appeared in:

Films:


Television:

Aérospatiale Gazelle

The Aérospatiale Gazelle has appeared in:

Films:


Television:

  • A Gazelle was used for the helicopter hidden within The Highwayman’s futuristic 18-wheeler. Also in the Mini-series Amerika (1987) a pair used Blue Thunder birds painted in black with Russian insignias, to simulate Soviet gunships
  • In the show Max Headroom, the reporter Edison Carter frequently uses a Gazelle to travel to news locations over the apocalyptic chaos below.
  • One Aérospatiale Gazelle with SFRY Air Force markings was in a Coca-Cola animated comercial which was a parody of the Grand Theft Auto game series. At the very end of the commercial a helicopter is seen passing over the screen with troops jumping out. The helicopter has a very clear SFR Yugoslav roundel on it's side. 1

Games

  • As seen in some screenshots, the Gazelle helicopter is depicted as a unit for NATO forces in the game World In Conflict.

Aérospatiale Alouette II

The Aérospatiale Alouette II has appeared in:

TV Movie

Kamov Ka-27 Helix

The Kamov Ka-27 Helix has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

  • The Ka-27 features as a heavy-lift Chinese helicopter in the popular real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. Its performance and size in this game is grossly exaggerated.
  • The Ka-27 appears as one of several non-playable support helicopters in Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc, armed with unguided rocket pods.

Kamov Ka-50

The Kamov Ka-50 Hokum A has appeared in:

Games

Kamov Ka-52

The Kamov Ka-52 Hokum B has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

  • Lock On: Modern Air Combat – non-playable
  • The Ka-52 is one of two helicopters the player can command in the flight sim Enemy Engaged: Comanche/Hokum, and is a non-playable helicopter in the game's predecessor, Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc.

The Ka-52 is also an enemy unit in the game Heatseeker.

Kamov Ka-60

The Kamov Ka-60 has appeared in:

Games:

  • The Ka-60 is featured in Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty as the helicopter flown by the Terrorist who capture the Tanker in fisrt portion of the game. During a brief audo exchange, the Ka-62 (The commercial variant) is also mentioned. The "Kasatka" as the Ka-60 and 62 are called appears later in the game, flown by Otacon who is attempting to rescue the Hostages aboard BigShell.

UH-1 Iroquois

The UH-1 Iroquois has appeared in:

Films:

  • Stage
  • Miss Saigon - The helicopter is an important part of a pivotal scene that separates the American from his Vietnamese lover. A UH1A formed the basis of a computer-generated image.[2]

Television:

Books:

  • Author Robert Mason recounts his career as a UH-1 "Slick" pilot in his memoir, Chickenhawk.

Video Games

OH-58 Kiowa

The OH-58 Kiowa has appeared in:

Films:

  • The OH-58D is prominently featured in the movie Fire Birds as the sidekick to the movie's star, the AH-64A. Flown by Sean Young's character, CWO Guthrie, this example of the early, unarmed OH-58D accomplishes its mission of finding the enemy for the Apache as the movie approaches its climax.
  • The OH-58A has been seen in the films Commando & Close Encounters of the Third Kind acting as a light transport aircraft.

Games:

  • The armed OH-58D is one of the three flyable aircraft cockpits in the 1997 PC computer game, Longbow II. The game gives the possibility of flying in the pilot's right seat or flying in the co-pilot/gunner's (CPG) left seat.
  • Operation Flashpoint series - Added in the Red Hammer Expansion.

MBB Bo 105

The MBB Bo 105 has appeared in:

Films:

MBB/Kawasaki BBK 117

The MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 has appeared in:

Films:

MD 500 / Hughes OH-6

The Hughes OH-6 / Hughes 500 has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

Games

MD 520N

Films:

MD 600

The MD 600 has appeared in:

Films:

MD Explorer

The MD Explorer has appeared in:

Films:

Mil Mi-2 Hoplite

The Mil Mi-2 Hoplite has appeared in:

Films:

Mil Mi-6 Hook

The Mil Mi-6 Hook has appeared in:

Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)

Mil Mi-8 Hip

The Mil Mi-8 Hip has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

  • Enemy Engaged: Apache/Havoc (non-playable)
  • Operation Flashpoint series - Features the Mi-17 (Mi-8MT) as the primary transport helicopter of the Russian Forces. It is armed with 57mm Rockets.
  • Armed Assault - Features the Mi-17 in transport and gunship varients for the Sahrani Liberation Army.
  • Battlefield Vietnam

Mil Mi-14 Haze

The Mil Mi-14 Haze has appeared in:

Films:

Mil Mi-24 Hind

The Mil Mi-24 Hind has appeared in:

Films:


Games:

The Mi-24 appears in Command and Conquer Red Alert as the Soviets attack copter.

Mil Mi-28 Havoc

The Mil Mi-28 Havoc has appeared in:

Games:

Aérospatiale Puma

The Aérospatiale Puma has appeared in:

Films:

Sikorsky S-61/H-3 Sea King

The Sikorsky H-3 Sea King and variants have appeared in:

Films:


Television:

Games:

Sikorsky R-4

The Sikorsky R-4 has appeared in:

Games:

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite

The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite has appeared in:

Films:

Aérospatiale Super Frelon

The Aérospatiale Super Frelon has appeared in:

Films:

Eurocopter Super Puma

The Eurocopter Super Puma has appeared in:

Films:

Eurocopter Tiger

The Eurocopter Tiger has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

Sikorsky S-55

The Sikorsky S-55 has appeared in:

Movies:

Television:

Sikorsky S-62

The Sikorsky S-62 has appeared in:

Films

Sikorsky H-5

The Sikorsky H-5 has appeared in:

Films:



Sikorsky S-76

The Sikorsky S-76 has appeared in:

Films:

Television:

Sikorsky S-92

The Sikorsky S-92 has appeared in:

Films:

V-22 Osprey

The V-22 Osprey has appeared in:

Films:

Games:

In Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, the helicopter on the destroyer goes by the name of Ospery and serves as an anti-sub defence.

References

  1. ^ http://www.rotaryaction.com/pages/rambo3.html Fifth picture clearly shows a Gazelle with the fenestron (enclosed tail rotor), NOT the proposed Alouette III
  2. ^ Miss Saigon's Big-Ass Helicopter BY JUSTIN WESCOAT SANDERS, The Portland Mercury, Sep 2-8, 2004

External links

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